Best Annie Dillard Quotations
- Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty,… Age
- The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. Body
- Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. Believe
- The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. Beast
- Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Cursed
- We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. All
- The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. Art
- The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. All
- When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,… All
- Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. All
- Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like… Ascending
- Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets. Every Spring
- The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a… Bound
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… Age
- I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,… Appalls
- We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by… Activities
- All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. All
- I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read. All
- There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go… Enlightenment
- The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that… Animal
- I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. Awake
- There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision… Band
- Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic. Art
- The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. Creation
- The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. Earnest
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